MORAN Marmaton Valley wrapped up their home preseason tournament with losses to West Elk on Friday.
The Wildcat girls ended tournament play with a 1-2 record and due to point differential, ended up second overall while the boys finished fourth, going 0-3. The Marmaton Valley girls are 2-2 after the tournament and the boys are 1-3.
The Wildcat girls lost to West Elk 47-20.
Marmaton Valley trailed only 10-4 after the first quarter but a 20-3 second quarter put the Wildcats behind 30-7 at the half. The Patriots slowed coming out of the half and scored only 7 while Marmaton Valley put up 11 to cut the lead to 37-18. West Elks defense perked up in the fourth quarter and held the Wildcats to just two points while they scored 10 to close out the game.
Junior Bailey Griffith had seven points followed by five for sophomore Mykayla Ard, four for sophomore Kaylee Becker and two each for freshman Alyson Ard and junior Shailee Woods.
Meanwhile, the Marmaton Valley boys lost 69-25.
West Elk got up 19-4 after the first quarter and improved on that with a 25-3 second quarter to head into halftime 44-7. The Wildcats pulled back after halftime and scored 10 while allowing just 16 from the Patriots and nearly they matched West Elk in the fourth quarter, scoring eight while the Patriots scored nine.
Senior Gage Griffith led the way with 12 followed by five for senior Isaac Heskett, four for senior Trent Vest and two for junior Ty Scharff and freshman Garrett Henderson.
Marmaton Valley will try to rebound as they host Three Rivers-foe Jayhawk-Linn on Tuesday.
ON THURSDAY, after a rough outing to open their tournament versus Northeast-Arma, the Marmaton Valley girls rebounded while the boys got thumped versus Madison.
The Lady Wildcats started strong and used a 13-point second quarter to take a 21-12 lead at the half. Marmaton Valley outscored Madison 6-3 in the third before getting outscored 9-6 in the fourth quarter to end the game with a nine-point, 33-24 win.
Junior Bailey Griffith had 10 points followed by nine for sophomore Mykayla Ard. Junior Shailee Woods and sophomore Kaylee Becker each scored five and freshman Alyson Ard had four.
Meanwhile, the Wildcat boys started off poorly and just went downhill from there. They trailed 24-9 after the first quarter and 40-14 at halftime.
Madison let up off the gas in the second half and Marmaton Valley allowed just 14 third-quarter points compared to 10 scored the Wildcats. Both teams scored eight in the fourth quarter leading to the 62-32 loss.
